Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation .
2 There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored .
3 When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh .
4 As we did so he explained he had taken the day off , instead of next Sunday , which would have been part of his free week-end .
5 This may , however , have simply been part of his lifelong preoccupation with correct dress : one friend remarked that his clothes were English , his underclothes American . "
6 I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years .
7 The confrontation between President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and opposition forces , including those who had once been part of his regime as fellow nationalists , continued throughout October .
8 Their actions are part of his reconstruction and interpretation of a once potent ritual , part of his own ‘ Vitalizing of the Classics ’ .
9 A flash of sunlight , burning logs , an old psalm tune , fallen leaves , are part of his remembered world ; as are ballads , songs and dance rhythms , the sound of water sliding down window panes , or slapping against holes in the river bank .
10 Bradl greatly appreciates the men who are part of his team , especially tuner Sepp Schlogl .
11 He 's the local landowner — those fields at the back of these outbuildings are part of his estate .
12 Dr Apps is off on an expedition of a lifetime to the Arctic Circle next month and three chocolate bars are part of his daily diet .
13 He has as many selves as he has utterances , virtual or realized , as many selves as there are words in his lexicon , even in the dictionary of his potential language , with each word its aetimology , its phoneyetic fragility and its semiantic sea changes , each word its infinite contiguities and its tall spokes of paradismatic possibilities .
14 I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon .
15 Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on .
16 Staring balefully from the 30-year-old 's office wall are pictures of his six predecessors .
17 Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal .
18 Down whose son had been bestman at his wedding .
19 Mr Onanuga admits that there are aspects of his story which do not appear to add up .
20 Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality .
21 An anniversary poem went to the Queen , and many MPs have been recipients of his comments couched in rhyme on subjects from food irradiation ( he 's an opponent ) to saving the Antarctic .
22 In his memoirs , which are monuments to his own consistency , he answered this question in the negative : while admitting that he had no pre-established plan ( naturally since that would have been the kind of dogmatic thinking that he abhorred ) , he insisted that " the broad outlines were fixed in my mind …
23 How are matters with his wife 's family ? ’
24 We 're part of his family .
25 It is not therefore surprising that he becomes unable to make love satisfactorily to the women he chooses since they are surrogates for his mother .
26 Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ?
27 are sort of his type of player
28 One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home .
29 When Wood retired in 1968 ( by which time he had become head porter ) he gave an account of his 35 years of service ; what follows are extracts from his address , in his own words :
30 There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment .
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